Sanitary attachment for telephones.



iatentea April 5, 19o4.

.. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH L. THOMPSON, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

.SANITARY ATTACHMENT FOR TELEPHONES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,543, dated April 5,1904.

Application tiled December 26, 1903. Serial No. 86,67. (No modell) I Toall whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, HUGH L. THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a certain new and A useful Improvement inSanitary Attachments for Telephones, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description. p

The object of this invention is to provide in a portable convenient formfor telephone users a sanitary covering for a telephonemouthpiece, so asto protect the user against the insanitary conditions that may exist inthe mouthpiece by reason of its use by'persons having communicabledisease.

The invention consists of a shield of antiseptic,germicidal,disinfecting,or other tissue,

'such as thin paper, adapted to be temporarily applied to atelephone-mouthpiece, .the said shields for convenience, portability,and protection being arranged in book form and capable of readydetachment and preparation for use on the mouthpiece, .as the telephoneuser may require.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating in the several figures ofwhich similarly designated, Figure 1 the invention, like parts' are is aperspective view showing the invention 'embodied 1n book form and `withthe cover raised. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one'of the sheets detached.Fig. 3 is a perspective view of thc mouthpiece of a telephone inconventional form having the shield attached. Figs. 4. and 5 are viewssimilar to Fig. 2, showing modifications. A

A sheet 1, of paper or other material or tissue suiliciently thin ormembranous not to interfere with the telephonie transmission of speech,is provided with oblique or diagonal lines 2 across two or more of itscorners, so

' that the angles or corners may be bent over or back'upon the sheet,substantially as indicated in Fig. 3, to form hooks 3, by which thissheet may be attached to a telephone-mouthpiece 4 in a temporary way inorder to interpose a shield between the speaker and the Fig. 4a singletransverse line of indentations, perforations, or scoring 7 may be madeacross the bottom and the whole edge of the bottom folded back.

as indicatedin Fig. 1, with two or more sheets to a page 'and separated`by a line of perforations or indentations or other lines of Weak'- ness8, so that the sheets may be readily detached from one another andalso.separated by a line of weakness 9 next the binding' edge or back,so that the sheets may be detached one by one from the book. The binding10 may be of any approved character. A quantity of such sheets in bookform may be readily carried on the person, sothat each user of thetelephone may ,be vsupplied with these shields in portable andconvenient form.

antiseptic, germicidal, or disinfecting nature,

or they may be impregnated with any suitable antiseptic or germicid ordisinfectant.

What I claim is* 1. A .sanitary attachment for telephones, comprising asheet provided with 'bending lines to permit the sheet to be bent toform hooks by which it may be attached directly to thetelephone-mouthpiece. u i

2. Alsanitary attachment for telephones,

comprising a sheet having diagonal lines of hooks at both top andbottom, or, as shown in I prefer to arrange the sheets in book form, l

The substance Vof the sheets may be of an Y `individual Weakness acrossits corners to permit the corners to be bent into hooks for attachingthe sheet temporarily directly to the telephonemouthpiece.

3. A sheet of antiseptic, germicidal, or disinmouthpiece, and therebyavoid direct contact fecting material for attachment to the mouthpieceof a telephone, provided With-integral of Weakness foi' forming integralhooks to sushooks for hooking it temporarilyon the telephone-mouthpiece.

pend it over the telephone-mouthpiece.

In'testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 4. Sanitary attachments forYtelephones, hand this 23d day of December. A. D. 1903.

5| comprising a pile of separable sheets bound in book form, each sheetprovided with lines of Weakness to permit of its detachment from thebook, and also provided With diagonal lines HUGH L. THOMPSON. Witnesses:V-

' C. WALTER CHILDS,u

CAROLINE S. CHURCH.

